HCMC – Artist Talk by Pipo Nguyen-Duy

Thu 03 May 2012, 7 pm
Galerie Quynh

From San Art:
Please join San Art for an artist talk by Pipo Nguyen-Duy, hosted by Galerie Quynh.

Entrance is free and open to the public. This event will be held in Vietnamese and English.

Pipo Nguyen-duy will speak about his continuing project ‘East of Eden’, which began in the summer of 2002 in the USA. Beginning as a series of large, staged, color photographs, ‘East of Eden’ questions the historical depiction of the American landscape as the Garden of Eden. Pipo will share how this project has grown over time, expanding with new narratives from the perspective of post September 11 and his frequent travels back to his country of birth since 2001. Pipo is currently based in Ho Chi Minh City courtesy of the John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship.

Pipo Nguyen-duy was born in Hue, Vietnam, and immigrated to the United States in 1975. He earned a Master of Arts in Photography, followed by a Master of Fine Arts in Photography, from the University of New Mexico at Albuquerque. He is now Professor of Art at Oberlin College.

Pipo has received many awards and grants including an En Foco Grant; a Professional Development Grant from the College Arts Association; an American Photography Institute’s National Graduate Fellowship, NYC; a fellowship from the Oregon Arts Commission in Salem, Oregon; a B. Wade and Jane B. White Fellowship in the Humanities at Oberlin College; and three Individual Artists Fellowship from the Ohio Arts Council in Columbus, Ohio. He participated as an artist-in-residence at Monet’s Garden through The Lila Wallace-Reader’s Digest Artists at Giverny Fellowship and also at the Headlands Center for the Arts in Sausalito, California. He participated in Light Work’s Artist-in-Residence program in 2004.